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Little is known of Marco Ocram’s earliest years. He was adopted at age nine, having been abandoned in a Detroit shopping mall—a note taped to his anorak said the boy was threatening the sanity of his parents. Re-abandoned in the same mall a year later, with a similar note from his foster parents, he was homed with his current Bronx mom—a woman with no sanity to threaten.

Ocram first gained public attention through his bold theories about a new fundamental particle, the Tao Muon, which he popularized in a best-selling book, The Tao Muon. He was introduced to the controversial literary theorist, Herbert Quarry, who coached Ocram in a radical approach to fiction, in which the author must write without thinking, a technique to which Ocram was n
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Marco Ocram Hi Sarah,

Many thanks for your question. Perhaps the best answer may be found by listening to a recent interview in which I explain how the books came …more
Hi Sarah,

Many thanks for your question. Perhaps the best answer may be found by listening to a recent interview in which I explain how the books came about and what I was trying to achieve with them. Here's a link... https://www.spreaker.com/episode/2294... Do please let me know if you have any problems getting the link to work, or any follow-on questions.

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